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2.  AmI is an emerging discipline that brings intelligence to our every day
environments and make those environments sensitive to us.
 Ambient intelligence is a vision on the future of consumer
electronics, telecommunications and computing that was originally
developed in the late 1990s for the time frame 2010–2020.
 In an ambient intelligence world, devices work in concert to support
people in carrying out their everyday life activities, tasks and rituals in
an easy, natural way using information and intelligence that is hidden in
the network connecting these devices.
 More and more people make decisions based on the effect their actions
will have on their own inner, mental world.

3.  This experience-driven way of acting is a change from the past when
people were primarily concerned about the use value of products and
services,.
 Ambient intelligence addresses this shift in existential view by
emphasizing people and user experience.
 It is a network of hidden intelligent interfaces that recognize our presence
and mould our environment to our immediate needs.
 A key factor in AmI is the presence of Intelligence

4.  In computing, ambient intelligence (AmI) refers to electronic
environments that are sensitive and responsive to the presence
of people.
 AmI refers to an exciting new paradigm in IT in which people
are empowered through a digital environment that is aware of
their presence and context and is sensitive, adaptive and
responsive to their needs, habits, gestures and emotions.

5. A variety of technologies can be used to enable Ambient
intelligence environments such as:
 Bluetooth Low Energy
 RFID
 Ict implant
 Sensors
 Software agents
 Affective computing
 Nanotechnology
 Biometrics

6.  All this implies that the near future will bring us kitchens that
will automatically switch off hot plates when we leave the
apartment or, even more astonishing, TV’s that automatically
switch to another TV channel if it “judges” by our facial
expressions that we don’t like the show which is on at the
moment

8. The ISTAG advisory group suggests that the following characteristics
will permit the societal acceptance of ambient intelligence:
 AmI should facilitate human contact.
 AmI should be oriented towards community and cultural
enhancement.
 AmI should help to build knowledge and skills for work, better
quality of work, citizenship and consumer choice.
 AmI should inspire trust and confidence.
 AmI should be consistent with long term sustainability — personal,
societal and environmental — and with lifelong learning.
 AmI should be made easy to live with and controllable by ordinary
people.

9.  Ambient intelligence is based on 3 key technologies:
 Ubiquitous Computing
 Ubiquitous Communication
 Intelligence User Interfaces

10.  Ubiquitous Computing means the integration of
microprocessors into everyday objects like furniture, clothes,
toys, etc.
 Using Ubiquitous Computing people will not be aware of the
presence of computers, they will be in the background.

11.  Ubiquitous Communication enables these objects to
communicate with each other and with the user by means of ad-hoc
and wireless networking.
INTELLIGENCE USER INTERFACES
 Intelligence User Interfaces enables the inhabitants of the AmI to
control and interact with the environment in a natural(voice,
gestures) and personalized way(preferences, context).

13.  LOW COST DEVICES
They will be more specific computers for concrete applications, so
they will not have the processor and hard disk requirements that
general purpose computers have.
 HIGH BAND WIDTH
Another requirement for Ubiquitous Computing is to have enough
network bandwidth to allow that the communication between the
different devices that are used.
 INVISIBLE FILE SYSTEM
Users should be able to access to data without knowing specific file
names, location or format.

14.  AUTOMATIC INSTALLATION
Some technical alternatives are the use of programming languages as
Java that are platform-independent and are moved easily from one
computer to another.
 PERSONALIZE INFORMATION
One approach can be that every time a new person joins a community
her/his personal profile needs to be added to every device.
 PRIVACY ISSUES
System can record the actions of the users, their preferences, their
locations… & some other people may access to these data.

15. AmI exhibits the following features:
 offers great benefits to users by customizing their environments
and meeting their needs.
 gives more control to humans by making their environments more
responsive to intended actions, and reducing the physical effort
that is required to perform a task.
 can take away control when the environment performs the wrong
action.
 AmI technologies can raise other security issues. At the sensor
level, sensor reliability, handling errors and installation errors can
create security risks.
 To ensure security in sensor networks, the designer must consider
these factors together with sensor communication channel
reliability and security, and sensor data security.

16.  SMART HOMES
 Ambient Intelligence is allowing the home itself to possess
intelligence and make decisions regarding its state and
interactions with its residents.
 HEALTH RELATED APPLICATIONS
 Hospitals can increase the efficiency of their services by
monitoring patients’ health and progress by performing automatic
analysis of activities in their rooms.
 EDUCATION SERVICES
 Education related institutions may use technology to create smart
classrooms where the modes of learning are enhanced.

17.  PUBLIC TRANSPORT SECTOR
 Public transport can benefit from extra technology including
satellite services, GPS-based spatial location, vehicle identification,
image processing and other technologies to make transport more
fluent and hence more efficient and safe.
 EMERGENCY SERVICES:
 Safety- related services like fire brigades can improve the reaction
to a hazard by locating the place more efficiently and also by
preparing the way to reach the place in connection with street
services.

18.  Production-oriented places
 Companies can use RFID sensors to tag different products and
track them along the production and commercialization
processes. This allows identifying the product path from
production to consumer and helps improving the process by
providing valuable information for the company on how to
react to favorable demand and unusual events like products
that become unsuitable for sale.

19. As far as dissemination of information on personal presence is out
of control, ambient intelligence vision is subject of criticism:
 Many AmI applications relying upon wireless sensors are at the
mercy of battery lie for the sensors.
 Challenge is to model multiple residents in an environment
 Challenge for AmI researchers is to design self-testing and self-repairing
AmI software.
 Issues related to security and privacy for AmI systems.
 Any immersive, personalized, context-aware and anticipatory
characteristics brings up societal, political and cultural concerns
about the loss of privacy, as soon as any third party gets control
over the respective information and status data.

20.  Ambient Intelligence is establishing fast as an area where a
confluence of topics can converge to help society through
technology. There are still many challenges ahead and
improvements are needed at all levels: infrastructure,
algorithms and human computer interaction for AmI systems
to be widely accepted and more important of all, be useful to
society.